What Should I Do When My Child Falls Apart?
Why Meltdowns Aren’t What They Look Like A child who sobs for twenty minutes because his brother got a bigger slice of cake is…
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Why Is the Meanest Voice in My Life My Own?
What would happen if someone followed you around all day and said out-loud what you say privately to yourself? “You look terrible.” “You’re going…
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Why Is “No” the Hardest Word You Know?
A woman in her late thirties described it this way to her therapist: she had agreed to coordinate a community event, host Shabbos guests…
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What Happens to Your Brain When You Step Outside?
Twenty minutes. That is how long it takes, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology, for cortisol (a stress-response hormone) levels to…
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Why Can’t I Relax Even When I Finally Have Time?
Most people, when they imagine rest, imagine its absence: the absence of work, of noise, of obligation. What they do not always anticipate is…
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Why Do I Feel Worse in the Summer?
A researcher named Tali Sharot has spent much of her career studying what she calls the “optimism bias,” the human tendency to overestimate how…
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The Loneliness Epidemic Doesn’t Take a Vacation
Summer is supposed to be the easy season. Lighter schedules, longer days, more time outside. So why do so many people feel lonelier in…
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The What’s and Why’s of Attachment Styles
There is a particular kind of ache that can settle into the space between two people who love each other but cannot seem to…
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The Science of Self-Compassion: Why Being Kind to Yourself Is Not Weakness
Most of us were never taught to be kind to ourselves. We were taught to work hard, hold ourselves accountable, and do better. In…
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The Psychology of Negative Thinking
There is a voice most of us know too well. It appears just before we walk into a room full of people, just after…
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Why Don’t I Believe I’m Worth More? The Work of Building Self-Worth
Building Self-Worth That Actually Holds In 2009, researchers at the University of Waterloo asked participants with low self-esteem to repeat the phrase “I am…
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Why Does Everyone Else Seem to Have It Together?
The Math We Do in Other People’s Kitchens There is a particular kind of arithmetic that happens at social gatherings; quick, involuntary, and almost…
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